ARTIST: PATRICK CHURCH

NEW SERIES: Pushing Through (2016)

Making more and more artwork, I feel as though I exercise so much self-control, everything becomes more and more disciplined, flat and restricted. I decided to repeat a self-portrait hundreds of times over the period of a few months by using a simple line drawing. I found that the portrait slowly became distorted. I was able to break through these boundaries in my mind and not worry much about a ‘final outcome’.

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Artist Statement

My work is predominately autobiographical, I work with my own life experiences, even though I sometimes paint or draw other people, I feel that each subject is subconsciously about myself or something I relate to. I would say I don’t obscure, but manipulating it and exaggerate it, to heighten my audience’s experience. I am currently working on a solo exhibition in London, various commissions for private clients, and I am collaborating with iconic London venue ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ painting murals on the walls inside the venue.

Church has submitted photographs from his performance piece ‘You touch me when I’m too disgusted to touch myself’.